vector-borne infection

Yellow fever is a mosquito-borne virus that is thought to cause between 20,000 and 180,000 deaths each year in Africa. Researchers have previously used environmental measures to map areas most at risk of yellow fever outbreaks, but the authors of…

Zika virus — carried by Aedes aegypti mosquitos in select tropical and subtropical regions of the world — is often transmitted indoors in developing countries. But in the United States, the majority of mosquito bites occur outdoors. Therefore, local patterns…